Preliminary Exercise : The Final Cut

For this Preliminary Task I was in a group with Mollie Neal, Shirley Kirby and Ellie MacGregor. We started off the project by using my storyboard as an outline for the storyline of the project. We stuck to it most of the way but we did however make slight alterations along the way, We used and did so correctly all the filming techniques required of us in order to create the perfect scene. The scene however, did not turn out quite that way. Although we used various shots such as match on action shots, following someone walk through a door and over the shoulder shots in order to show and express the conversation that was going on throughout our project, our end result was far from perfect. Due to not following the storyboard to the letter there were some shots we were unaware of shooting when it came to editing . Whilst shooting the clips however, I do feel that the tempo of the scenes and shots taken were done so correctly and to a satisfying quality.

Editing was anything but smooth. The scene we were shooting had a strict duration limit of exactly 30 seconds which we had to follow and stick tightly too. Due to some of the shots not being in the storyboard that we had created the duration of these shots was longer than those on the storyboard, so we had to drastically cut down clips where they were clearly not meant to be. We did however improvise very well and managed to ull off a final piece with some nice shots included within such as the over the shoulder shot of the conversation and the walking through the door shot as well. With the door shot, this only worked as we cut the clip at exactly the right moment in order for it not overlap with the scene we had to place in next. All of the sound went exactly to plan with no unwanted background noise ruining the scene, there was only one shot where the sound did not go according to plan. So overall, on reflection of our final edit, i do believe that me and my group produced a fairly good job with only a few problems when shooting the scene and several with the editing. But overall not to bad but room for improvement and lessons to be learnt for next time.